In a recent development on Wednesday, the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, has reiterated in a media conference about the new division of recruitment for the defense service, under a new pseudonym policy of the central government, which is named as ‘Agnipath’.
This recruitment policy will target on prioritising the generation of more jobs in the paramilitary forces as well as the Assam Rifles. The new recruitment policy is about to last for four years, after which its operations will be based on the outcome.
The Indian youth, under this policy, will have an opportunity to serve under the regular cadre of the Armed Forces for four years at first, and later even an extension on success. The office of the central Union Minister, Amit Shah, tweeted, “’Agnipath Yojana’ is a visionary and welcome decision of @narendramodi ji for the bright future of youth.”
Adding further to its statement, the office wrote “In this context, today the ministry of home affairs has decided to give priority to Agniveers who have completed 4 years under this scheme in the recruitment of CAPFs and Assam Rifles.”
Agnipath is to govern the process of recruitment for the personnel that rank below the office holding (PBOR) in three services. This decision of authority has been provided by the Ministry of Defence.
As reiterated by the Union Minister, the new recruits are to be called as ‘Agniveers’, who are to form ranks of distinct divisions for four years of service. These recruits will also be designated to wear a distinct insignia as a part of their uniform in duty.
Amit Shah has highlighted that the decision of Home Ministry will add value to the lives of the youths trained under the policy of ‘Agnipath’ that will contribute to the “service and security of the country even further.” He further added that the processing of the policy has been begun and further planning is on the way.
In terms of the response accumulated by the policy, those are mixed ones as several veterans have expressed reluctance for it. They believe that the policy can adversely cause an effect on the morale and confidence of the armed trainees.
The Lieutenant General, Vinod Bhatia (retd), who is also considered an expert of military affairs, expressed his preference for a pilot project before the launch of the Agnipath policy in order to better assess its effectiveness.
Commenting on the same, Bhatia tweeted, “A veteran’s view — as received. Anyone under the delusion that an ‘intern’ on a 4 yr tour of duty will match up to the Himalayan challenges & place ‘Izzat’ of the paltan before life & limb is clearly hallucinating. If you think pension is expensive- try defeat.”
